Sentences with phrase «destroying habitat»

In the drive to produce more palm oil, for use in food and health products or in biodiesel, more and more forest is chopped down — in the process releasing vast amounts of stored carbon in the soil and reducing the carbon storage potential of the region, as well as destroying habitat for orangutans and other endangered species.

Meanwhile the «narco cattle ranches» and «narco communities» are destroying the habitat of spider monkeys, jaguars, river turtles and numerous other flora and fauna.

Depending on how it's done (micro, small, run of river, large scale) it can be anything from a great low - carbon sustainable energy source to an environmental disaster destroying habitat, displacing people and animals, and even spewing greenhouse gases from the large ponds created behind massive dams.

But shrinking Antarctic sea ice is destroying their habitat.

Krill are on the front lines of climate change — melting sea ice is destroying their habitat, and ocean acidification could further harm them.

The message: Palm oil — an ingredient in many Nestle products — is killing orangutans by destroying their habitat, the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.

Led by global paper giants APP and APRIL, the pulp, paper and palm oil industries are driving Riau's Sumatran tigers and elephants to local extinction in just a few years by destroying their habitat, the study found.

The «belief» that we are destroying our habitat is founded on evidence of many specific harms.

In the case of climate change, just because some scientists and environmentalist believe in their hearts and hearts that we humans are destroying our habitat, (exaggerate the effects) does not make it so.

The polar bears (and seal pups they eat) won't have to worry about evil industrialists destroying their habitat yet.

It argues, for example, that humans kill far more birds by destroying habitat.

Beef production has garnered a negative reputation for having a large carbon footprint and for destroying habitat, notably in the Brazilian Amazon.

However there are regions of the world that are expansive and offer ample room for Humans to explore and grasp the essence of life without over-congesting and destroying the habitat.

Conservationists talk of the «good of the species» not of rights of individual animals: for instance, deer and elephant are culled to prevent them from destroying their habitat.

Donna Kline, a fish ecologist at California State University in Monterey Bay, thinks that far from destroying a habitat, the trawl may have created a new one by etching grooves into the flat bottom.

At the same time, these industrial scale practices are destroying habitats.»

Furthermore, at the same time that we undermine our own future, we are threatening or destroying the habitats of other species at rates unparalleled in natural history.

That's because valuable forests are often destroyed to plant palm oil plantations, destroying the habitats of countless species while also threatening the well being and livelihoods of communities that depend on the forest and contributing to climate change.

In fact it may be a cause in destroying the habitats of wildlife and washing up on the beaches of paradise.

Once a year, we'll have an Anti-Earth-Day and allow ourselves to destroy habitats, hunt rare animals, mess with the climate and put toxins in the water.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the habitat of breeding colonies in Louisiana's Pearl River Basin, for instance, but bird numbers held steady, researchers noted in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

«The expansion of these crops destroys habitat for bees,» says Marcelo Aizen, a pollination biologist at the National University of Comahue in San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.

Once a year, we'll have an Anti-Earth Day and allow ourselves to destroy habitats, hunt rare animals, mess with the climate and put toxins in the water.

They rule Antarctica, but perhaps not for much longer — climate change looks set to destroy the habitat that emperor penguins rely upon, says Alison George

Where these outflows are the most voluminous, coral reef has largely been overtaken by green algae, which has destroyed habitat for an untold number of marine species.

Decades of scientific studies document the fraying of ecosystems and a grim tally of species extinctions due to destroyed habitat, pollution, climate change, invasives and overharvesting.

It is at those times especially, when he emerges as the dominant species in an environment, that man must take care not to make demands upon the community that may destroy his habitat.

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of the forests and wetlands would be cleared for the canal, destroying the habitats and food sources of already endangered species such as the Baird's tapir (Tapirus bairdii), the spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), the harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) and the jaguar (Panthera onca), a creature of mystical importance to Mesoamerican cultures.

«These climate changes may destroy the habitat of rodents or give new rodent forms a chance,» van Dam says.

In the past, there have been about eight different ways by which human societies hammered environments, by destroying habitats, exterminating species, overfishing, deforestation, soil erosion, introducing exotic pest species and other ways.

Opponents say the dam is unnecessary, will block the migration of salmon and destroy the habitats of clams, in turn wrecking a unique haven for birds and aquatic life.

For a quarter century global - warming theorists have predicted that climate creep was going to occur and that we needed to prevent greenhouse gases from warming things up, thereby raising the sea level, destroying habitats, intensifying storms, and forcing agricultural rearrangements.

Palm oil deforestation releases high levels of carbon dioxide and destroys the habitat of some of Southeast Asia's most valued wildlife.

And while the book is only loosely based on an actual event in which the Disney company, big supporters of Sierra Club, was actually blocked by Sierra Club from building a ski resort in an area that would have destroyed the habitats of endangered animals, there was a ring to it that perhaps this was trying a little too hard to bring new details to light from that former case.

Does this «hero» get a gun and go after the human hunters that are responsible for the extinction of many species because of human greed and ignorance that destroys habitat??

They burn large areas and destroy habitat for money.

Feral pigs destroyed habitat for snakes and preyed on them as well.

The island scrub jay is classed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because its very small range makes it potentially vulnerable to a catastrophic incident [1] such as Avian malaria or a large fire that destroys their habitat.

Because when we destroy our habitat, we destroy ourselves.»

It has destroyed the habitat of many species of plants and animals, particularly boreal birds.

This could have negative consequences for plant life and destroy habitats and ecosystems.

An oil spill could devastate endangered species like polar bears and bowhead whales, destroy habitat for millions of migratory birds, and jeopardize the subsistence - based Inupiat culture.

Recycling cell phones is particularly important in the fight to save gorillas because the areas of the Congo where these primates live are the same areas where the rare mineral Coltan is mined, an operation that puts gorillas in danger and destroys their habitat.

Stuart made a very valuable contribution several years ago by arguing that we ought to focus on species that were in imminent danger of extinction, i.e., those whose ranges were endemic to the area of destroyed habitat.

They shouldn't be using forest floor residue or they will destroy habitat, nutrients, etc..

Climate change may cause changes in migratory patterns, destroy habitat (particularly in nutrient - rich polar seas), and drastically change ocean circulation, vertical mixing and overall climate patterns.

When thousands of solar panels are built in undeveloped natural areas, the panels crowd out wildlife and destroy their habitat.

Species can become extinct when humans over hunt and over fish, pollute the environment, destroy habitats, and introduce new species to areas.

Either that or we can just destroy their habitats like usual.

Coal mining destroys habitat and pollutes our air and water, while coal - fired power plants consume massive amounts of water to operate, straining our rivers and aquifers.